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Kagome laid on her bed crying. Why, why, why now?! I'm making progress, I was barely thinking about him. I was almost completely over him! Why!? She thought as the tears ran down her cheeks. No! I will not let him see this! She thought as she sat up and wiped her tears away. He will not see me cry again! She thought clinching her fist beside her chin in a determined fashion. She stood up and walked to her door feeling her heart pounding for she could still sense the jewel downstairs and knew her former love was there. She turned to her closet and changed into a pair of tan pants and a white t-shirt before opening the door and descended the stairs.
The two fuzzy white triangles on the Hanyou's head twitched as the miko opened her door and padded softly down the stairs. Kagome stepped into the kitchen and smiled kindly at InuYasha. Her heart felt like it was going to pound right out of her chest and she knew InuYasha could hear it. She reached into the cupboard and pulled down a glass, leaving her back to the hanyou so she could get her heart rate under control.
She released the breath she had unconsciously been holding and turned to the refrigerator, which InuYasha was standing by. She walked past him and felt her head get light as all the blood rushed to it.
He was standing leaned against the counter with his arms crossed over his chest. His eyes closed but was listening to Kagome movements. Damn! This isn't going to be easy! He heaved a quiet sigh as Kagome moved around him to pour herself a drink.
She gathered up every bit of her courage and turned to face the hanyou. "Why are you here?" She asked praying her voice sounded as nonchalant as she didn't feel. "To bring you back." He replied. This caught the young miko off guard, "take me back?"
"Yeah, don't sound so surprised." His arrogant tone had returned as did Kagome's anger. "You inconsiderate jerk!" She cried. The inu-hanyou's eyes shot opened and he looked over at the angry miko who was standing beside him. "What!?" He cried feeling his anger bubble. "Why do you need me? I thought you had Kikyo!" She spit out the name as if it were poison. "Keh! Baka wench," without much thought Kagome reached out and slapped his chest, "I am not a baka! My only mistake was thinking you had a heart!" She yelled not caring how bad she would hurt him with this comment. InuYasha's anger died and he backed down. Kagome spun on her heel and returned to her room where she paced the floor, clinching and unclenching her fists, trying to release her restlessness.
InuYasha growled threateningly. This was going no where and fast! He turned to punch the counter but stopped. He would break it and that would make Kagome even more angry. He leaned back against the counter and ran a clawed hand through his silver hair, trying to calm down before making a second attempt at this.
Kagome was sitting at her desk trying to work on a review packet for her math class when she heard a soft knock on her door. "It's open!" She threw over her shoulder; her eyes never leaving her paper where she was busying crunching numbers.
"Kagome?" She sighed heavily. "What InuYasha?" Her tone was cold and unforgiving. This was a side InuYasha had never seen before, and didn't like. "I don't have Kikyo, she died about a week after you left."
"Tough luck." Please forgive me! She prayed silently for saying such a thing. InuYasha jumped at this comment but nodded and sat down on her bed. "Um… yeah…"
"So you basically came back here to fetch me because your jewel shard detector is gone? Oh no!" She covered her mouth, turning to face him, as her eyes got wide as if she had been hit by an epiphany. "I was your jewel detector! Kikyo was your love. How silly of me to forget my place. Forgive me Lord InuYasha." She snapped, turning her back to him and commencing to her numbers. "Kagome come on! I'm here now!" He could feel his patience fading quickly. "A year later. To late InuYasha. You made your choice, deal with the consequences. You are probably only here because Kikyo is dead. You just want someone who resembles her so you can stare at me and think of her. No thanks! I'm finally caught up on all my school work and I'm passing my classes; besides I can't bail out on Yuri! We have yearbook together. I'm sorry your return trip was in vain but I am not going back. The door is behind you by the way. Goodbye InuYasha, for another year." She snapped.
InuYasha would have liked nothing more then to strangle the stubborn miko in front of him. He blinked as her words sunk into his overused brain. She thinks I love Kikyo still? I mean I do… I think… I did choose her after all… but that was pity? Oh how he wanted to scream. This annoying Miko was the only person that could make his brain fire off twenty questions in five seconds, which really gave him a headache!
"Kagome Higurashi, you are the most stubborn miko I know!" InuYasha yelled finally losing what little patients he had. "At least I am alive," she turned and got into InuYasha's face. "I was there InuYasha. I was by your side, no matter what! You came to get me and I returned to you! I accepted you for who you were! I never wanted you to wish yourself human on the jewel! I loved you as an inu-hanyou! I loved you!" She was on the verge of crying as she pulled out of his face. "You were just too wrapped up in Kikyo to notice." She added as she turned away. The hurt was clearly showing on her face and in her voice. She was trying her hardest not to cry; she wasn't like that anymore. InuYasha had hurt her worse than anyone she could think of had so she toughened up to stop it from happening again.
InuYasha sensed this change and sighed. How bad did I hurt you Kagome? She was shaking gently and InuYasha could smell her sadness seeping through her angry shield.
Kagome stared at the hole in her wall she had administered when she had come back from the Feudal Era for the last time. She had punched the wall in frustration and sadness, cracking her knuckles and fracturing the back of her hand. She glared at the spot remembering the reason she did it was sitting behind her. She sighed loudly and felt the same urge to punch the wall again.
"InuYasha get out. Go home. Leave me alone." She said quietly. "What?"
"I was doing fine. I am rebuilding my life here. Please leave me alone! You don't care about me. Please, please, just leave me alone."
"How bad did I hurt you?" She turned to the hanyou with a shocked look on her face. "What?" He stood and walked over to her. "Kagome, how badly did I hurt you?" She teared up and cursed herself for it. "You really want to know?" She whispered, looking down so her hair covered her eyes. "Yes, I do." She nodded and looked up. "InuYasha you are a filthy discusting half breed and you are worthless and mean nothing to me! Who could ever love someone so hideous!" She screamed and slapped him in the face, hard.
His heart broke, the words he had dreaded to hear Kagome say were spoken. His ears flattened against his head. "Ka…Ka…Kag…"
She put her fingers against his lips. "The sad stupid truth is that I don't mean any of that. I know you meant that you loved Kikyo. I wish I could hate you…" He felt tears rise in his eyes as she admitted that, "but I can't! Because I still love you!" She cried burying he face into her hands she ran to the bathroom.
InuYasha blinked and looked down at the floor. Oh yeah this is going to be harder then I thought! He sat on her bed and waited for her to take her shower and to calm down.